
Burnt Norton
Book
1731: When his youngest son is killed in a tragic accident, Sir William Keyt, master of Norton...

Busy Monsters: A Novel
Book
Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
Mark Twain, Lyon Clark and Beverly Lyon Clark
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"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides students with the standard source materials often cited by...

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
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Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus,...

St William of York
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St William of York achieved the unique distinction of being elected archbishop of York twice and...

Murder & Crime: County Durham
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This collection brings together thirteen criminal cases from County Durham's past that shocked not...

Piers Plowman: The Donaldson Translation, Select Authoritative Middle English Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism
Elizabeth Robertson, William Langland and Stephen H. A. Shepherd
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Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at...

Frederick Douglass
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Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass-orator, journalist, autobiographer;...

Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose
John Milton and Jason P. Rosenblatt
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This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose includes "Lycidas"-widely...